29th July - 3rd August 2024

15 years ago, 31106 leads an evening test train at Romsey, 1st August 2009. The locomotive was sent to the scrapyard at EMR Kingsbury, but is no longer visible.

Sunday 28th July: 33012 (+ 4TC) + 66793 5Z38 20:14 Fenchurch Street - Eastleigh
Monday 29th July: 66301 outshopped in 50 years of Drax scheme; 73963 + 73965 1Q51 11:15 Derby - Weymouth - Eastleigh one; 69010 0O32 16:44 Ilford - Eastleigh

Tuesday 30th July: 66301 0M26 08:50 Eastleigh - Mountsorrel one two three Flickr for the day; 73963 + 73965 1Q52 10:47 Eastleigh - Portsmouth Harbour - Littlehampton - Barnham- Portsmouth Harbour - Totton Yard  - Havant - Guildford - Havant - Fareham - Eastleigh - Winchester - Basingstoke - Woking - Lymington Pier - Eastleigh;  37521 + 57007 (spares for 57302) 5Z44 07:09 Crewe - Eastleigh one Flickr for the day; 69009 (+458410) 5X64 11:39 Wembley - Southampton one two, 5Q64 15:31 Southampton - Bournemouth Flickr for the day; 802007 5X80 08:51 Eastleigh - Royal Oak Sidings; 69008 + 801230 5X81 14:00 Acton - Eastleigh one two, 69008 0Z81 17:05 Eastleigh - Leicester Flickr for the day
Wednesday 31st July: 69010 (+ 701059) 5Q85 09:30 Eastleigh - Long Marston one Flickr for the day, 69010 (+ 701518 + 701524) 5Q86 15:39 Long Marston - Worcester - Eastleigh; 37521 (+ 9479 + 6393 + 6394 ) 5Z44 09:49 Eastleigh - Crewe one Flickr for the day; 73963 + 73965 1Q53 12:00 Eastleigh - Up Yard - Wimbledon - Up Yard one, 1Q53 18:05 Up Yard - Wimbledon - Totton - Romsey - Eastleigh; 802021 5X83 11:43 Paddington - Eastleigh; 69009 (+ 458518) 5Z66 15:30 Bournemouth - Eastleigh, 5Q95 18:31 Eastleigh - Widnes Flickr for the day

Thursday 1st August: 43050 newly named Loch Morar (+ 41182 + 40804) + 43059 newly named Loch Shiel 5Z33 09:49 Eastleigh - Crewe one two  Arlington pictures; 73963 + 73965 1Q54 12:55 Eastleigh - Reading Flickr for the day; 66105 (+ 99530 / 301 PERSEUS 14:45 Eastleigh - Stewarts Lane one, 66105 0Z25 18:50 Stewarts Lane - Eastleigh; 69010 (+ 701518 + 701524) 5Q86 12:24 Worcester - Eastleigh one two Flickr for the day; 37057 3Z04 16:00 Woking - Woking - Laverstock - Eastleigh one two, 3Q04 21:37 Eastleigh - Totton - Reading Triangle one

Friday 2nd August: 67024 5Z83 12:53 Chichester - Eastleigh, 5Z84 17:16 Eastleigh - Chichester Flickr for the day
Saturday 3rd August:

33012 remains at Eastleigh Works. There has been chatter of it being used on a Fareham line test of Sarah Siddons.

Waterside passenger service plan is cancelled: Cuts mean end of the line for return of passenger train

Romsey Railway station master’s house: Major step forward in plans